Thumbs down for trying.
But I do need to say that there's absolutely nothing wrong with never playing Vanilla and wanting to see what all the fuss is about. There's plenty of new players and nice people all around. From someone who has 0 to prove or achieve pve and pvp wise in the original Vanilla, what brought me back is the social aspect. Cross realm stuff killed any sort of people knowing "who's who" on their server. To the new people, take your time, level, and enjoy the ride. Enjoy the people you meet along the way. Enjoy the experience of raiding with 40 people and when you get that precious blue item you've been wanting for a long time. Enjoy that you actually get to use your cc spells in dungeons.
Unfortunately, there are just way too many people who walk around beating their chests being elitist at a dead game they were probably terrible at 10 years ago, but need some sort of validation by being world beaters at it now.